Just Home Brew Tips

Beer is the third most consumed drink in the world next to water and tea. Today brewing beer a home has become a hobby for most people. Brewing beer at home has many uses including personal consumption, free distribution to people at personal gathering and other non-commercial uses.

Beer is produced by brewing starch source in water like cereal grains and then fermenting with yeast. The main ingredients required for making beer are water, a source of starch like cereal grains or malted barley, yeast for fermentation and hops or any other alternative for flavoring. Secondary starch source like rice, sugar, etc can also be used. Read the full post

The history of making alcoholic beverages is essentially the history of home brewing. Historians believe that beer was originally discovered by people of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Barley was a staple grain of this area and it was soon learned that if the barley got wet and was allowed to germinate, it would become sweet and could be used in foods like bread. This process is known as malting.

It didn’t take much time after the discovery of malting to discover beer. Someone probably allowed their malted barley to get wet and remain exposed to the elements. Perhaps wild yeast contaminated the exposed liquid. The yeast then took hold and multiplied generating a bubbly liquid of alcohol and barley that soon became the first beer.

There are a few simple points that, if kept in mind, will ensure that you get the most from your home beer brewing and are able to impress your friends with your manufactured product.

Temperature – Make sure that the complete brewing process is carried out at a constant temperature (or at least a narrow range of temperatures).

No sugar – Avoid using ordinary sugar in the starch as it can lead to undesirable taste. Use malt, dextrose, corn syrup, or a combination of all these for a better brew. Read the full post

The basic ingredients used in the brewing of beer are quite simple. They are – Water – Even if you are trying to save water by drinking more beer, you do need it for brewing the bubbly. Starch – Use malt, dextrose, corn syrup, or a combination of all these for a better brew. Hops – No jumping around please. The flowers of the hops plant are used to flavour the beer. The unique taste of your beer is due to these flowers. Yeast – Rise and bubble! Yeast is of course necessary for the fermentation, which is the backbone of beer brewing. Read the full post